Professor Meredith Van Natta has published a new article, "Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net" in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. She shares:
This article examines how U.S. immigration law extends into the health care safety net to diminish noncitizens’ health chances and transform clinical practices. Focusing specifically on cancer care, I find that increasingly anti-immigrant federal policies often reshape clinical practices toward noncitizens with a complex, life-threatening condition as they approach a “specialty care cliff” by (1) creating time penalties that keep many noncitizens in a protracted state of injury and (2) deterring noncitizens from seeking care through threats of immigration enforcement. This also creates the potential for moral injury among health care workers, who must adapt clinical practices in response to both social and legal boundaries of belonging.
Read the full article here.
